Acer TravelMate TimelineX 8573T

Introduction

This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Acer TravelMate TimelineX 8573T laptop. If you have the Acer TravelMate TimelineX 8573T and are running Linux on it please consider editing this page or adding a comment below with your compatibility details. By contributing you will help other people running this laptop or trying to make a decision on whether to buy it or not.

I have one of these, and got it all working happily with Gentoo Linux.

Battery life is around 3,5h with wireless connectivity, which is far from the fantasy value promised by Acer, but enough for my usage.

Replaced 500GB hd with SSD, which runs blazingly fast. Very happy this way. Original drive works just fine in an external eSATA case, boots connected via eSATA/USB port, including the pre-installed Windows 7 Pro. Hardly ever use it though.

- used net-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112-r2 from staging- connect external monitor 1st time, GNOME would not recognize it properly, and only mirror the screen. Took a few restarts to have it working as you would expect.- touchpad driver: used x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics, since default setting would be almost unusable and hyper-sensitive- wpa_supplicant with a static config apparently works best

Untested:

- USB3 port, since I do not have a USB3 device to test with. USB2 works. - express card slot

Weird:

- rarely would not wake up from suspend- wifi device shows up three times in rfkill –list- rarely network connectivity would not work even after reboot

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